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Sky arts Highlights page has been updated with a band list; http://skyarts.sky.com/download-2013-highlights Show 1 Slipknot Rammstein Queens of the Stone Age Iron Maiden Korn Black Stone Cherry Europe Volbeat Down Dragonforce Papa Roach Enter Shikari Asking Alexandria Stone Sour Mastodon...

I have access to it and will be recording it on my sky-plus box; will report back on what is broadcast as I'm sure it will be streamed somewhere for people whho can't get Sky Arts

Yes, I think if you were relatively high up, and relatively close to the stage you had a better chance of hearing a guitar or two!

Yes I think it was a very odd situation, some people had really great sound, especially in the Vodafone VIP area which was behind me, yet many others were in the same sonic quagmire as me. The Download Forums have had loads of people complaining about it and saying they left early, and several...

Donington 88 Southampton Mayflower 90 Donington 92 Twickenham '08 Knebworth '10 O2 '11 (both nights) Donington '13 I was annoyed with Blaze for breaking up Wolfsbane, and it took me a while to get into the Bruce MKII era Maiden...

I was behind a relay tower, in line with the mixer desk at Donington, and the sound for Maiden was appalling, even worse than at Twickenham; I could hear every accent on the hi-hat, Bruce was fairly clear and 'Arry's bass runs were clear as a bell, but everything elses apart from the solos were...

The old Monsters of Rock used to be in the third weekend of August, rather than in June for Download, so the sunset was about an hour earlier (around 8 pm) so it was pretty much dark before the headliners came on. This year the sun will set about a half-hour into Maiden's set,it set a half hour...

There has been some speculation that the Donington show will be filmed, after Andy Copping (on 18th May this year) said The link for the original is here http://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk/tm.aspx?high=&m=5463237&mpage=1#5645364 For what it's worth I don't think they will film this...

It's true to say no Turbo, no Painkiller! Experimantal approaches from two bands that could have rested on their laurels..

There was footage of Megadeth's set shown in the BBC Arena documentary which showed a scrum of people pushing to get closer to the front during 'Peace Sells'. Having seen the underfoot conditions at the front of stage for myself during the fireworks after the show I can see how people could have...

SIT was the first Maiden album I bought on the day of release, I always regarded it as partly a reaction to the emergence of thrash metal; (the pace of Caught Somewhere In Time and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in particular). However Adrian Smith's contributions made the album...

It simply adds to the atmosphere for me, especially with the idea of a mechanical failure for our intrepid spacefarer in The Final Frontier. As you say it's easily fixable and they chose not to so, so I call it as a happy mistake, and intentionally left in imho. The kind of thing where they...

The kid grew up to be Dom Lawson, http://domlawsonlikesheavymetalmorethanyou.blogspot.com/, who wrote for Kerrang! and now Metal Hammer. Indeed, he was responsible for the Hammer's Final Frontier review....

Starblind's taken a kicking in some reviews, but it's lodged in my head alongside Mother of Mercy right now. Only The Alchemist seems weak to me now I've listened to the album about fifteen times! It's slowly dawning on me that I've been waiting 22 years for this album...

I remember reading a feature on Ernie Ball strings in a guitar mag a few years back, they said Ernie Ball, like many companies, never give anything away but they do give a generous discount for endorsees. TANSTAAFL...

My daughter is only 10 months (and therefore too young to be brought to the slaughter, but that's another story), and she already knows when to clap in "Mother of Mercy" on the new album! You gotta raise these kids right or it rebounds on you  :P I wanted to ask if any other of the Oldies miss...

I first got into Maiden when I saw the video for Aces High on Top Of The Pops.... My only sources for pre-internet information were The Friday Rock Show and Kerrang! (Metal Hammer was very amateur in those days, and Raw only started in '88 The Friday Rock show was where I heard for sure that...

Agreed, it makes so much more sense live. ---------------- Now playing: Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight via FoxyTunes

You're all wrong. America is in the sub-region of South Africa, which itself is situated in South America.

Re: Final Frontier review in Kerrang request I read it in Smiths today, (WH, not Adrian's gaff), and it wasn't very enlightening. Gave the whole plot of WTWWB away and also said that it outstayed its welcome (in so many words). I haven't bought Kerrap since Alien Ant Farm were on the cover...